Standard V: Integrating Technology into the Curriculum and Instruction

Outcome: Design, implement and assess learning experiences that incorporate use of technology in the curriculum-related instructional activity to support understanding, inquiry, problem-solving, communication or collaboration.

Indicators:
  • Assess students' learning/ instructional needs to identify the appropriate technology for instruction.
  • Evaluate technology materials and media to determine their most appropriate instructional use.
  • Select and apply research-based practices for integrating technology into instruction.
  • Use appropriate instructional strategies for integrating technology into instruction.
  • Select and use appropriate technology to support content-specific student learning outcomes.
  • Develop an appropriate assessment for measuring student outcomes through the use of technology.
  • Manage a technology-enhanced environment to maximize student learning.


Lesson Plan


Reflection

Students learn in many different ways. Introducing technology into lesson plans, curriculum, and instruction gives students many different venues for learning. Some students learn better by reading, some by hearing, and some by seeing. Use of technology makes it easy to provide all of these options, even all at the same time, so that the most students in the classroom get the best opportunity to learn a lesson. Students who have a diffucult time writing may be very successful when able to type, or to speak their answers into a recording device attached to a computer.